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File Created: 24-Jul-1985 by BC Geological Survey (BCGS)
Last Edit:  15-Mar-1988 by Lori K. Walters (LKW)

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NMI 092I7 Cu1
Name BETHLEHEM COPPER-WHITE, BRYNELSON, SJ Mining Division Kamloops
BCGS Map 092I046
Status Showing NTS Map 092I07W
Latitude 050º 29' 23'' UTM 10 (NAD 83)
Longitude 120º 58' 25'' Northing 5595044
Easting 643739
Commodities Copper Deposit Types L04 : Porphyry Cu +/- Mo +/- Au
Tectonic Belt Intermontane Terrane Quesnel
Capsule Geology

The property lies within the Lower Jurassic Guichon Creek batholith and straddles an intrusive contact where younger Bethlehem phase quartz diorite and granodiorite form an irregular embayment in older Guichon variety granodiorite. These rocks are cut by north trending igneous breccias and dacite porphyry dykes. North trending faults and closely spaced fracturing partly control mineralization. The Creek fault trends north-northeast immediately west of the White zone and east of the Iona deposit (092ISE006).

The original showing, the Brynelson, is a 3.65 metre wide zone striking 035 degrees, dipping 85 degrees southeast and consisting of narrow parallel stringers of bornite in Bethlehem phase quartz diorite. There are two sets of joints; one closely spaced, striking 020 degrees and dipping steeply to the east, and the other, less well developed, striking 080 degrees and dipping steeply south. The zone of strong jointing strikes slightly east of north and is 12 metres wide. Rocks adjacent to joints are propylitized. Chalcopyrite and malachite occur in similar zones 100 metres to the southeast and northeast.

Bibliography
EMPR AR 1955-34; 1965-146; 1966-152; 1967-153
EMPR ASS RPT *116
EMPR BULL 56
EMPR EXPL 1989-119-134
EMPR MAP *30
EMR MP CORPFILE (Bethlehem Copper Corp. Ltd.)
GSC MAP 886A
GSC MEM *249, p. 123
GSC OF 980
CIM Spec. Vol. 46, pp. 161-191
W MINER Aug. 1969
Field Trip Guidebook (GAC-MAC-CGU Victoria, B.C. May 11-13, 1983), Trip 10, Porphyry Deposits of Southern British Columbia, pp. 85-104
EMPR PFD 503020

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